Silkewerk - A round lace with a cros olyet

A round lace with a cros olyet

Take twelve loops in two colors, and place on the following fingers for You and Your Fellow:
Inner hands: A B C (color 1)
Outer hands: B C D (color 1)
Seat Your Fellow on Your right side.

Twist all your loops, giving a 180° turn to each loop:

Reverse upward on your outer hands.

D outer takes the overside of C inner reversed. [*]
(Maintaining the same twist direction as the previous loops.)

Reverse downward on inner hands.

Work with the inner hand:

A takes through B C inner, and D C B outer the overside of A outer reversed. [*]
(Undoing the twist from the first step.)

Exchange loops on your inner hands:

You: With A, enter B of the same hand from within outward and take Your Fellow's B unreversed.
Your Fellow: Takes with his A, Your loop B unreversed.
Both: Lower A to B.

Exchange loops on your outer hands:

You: Put your A loop over and around Your Fellow's A, taking his A loop back in exchange unreversed.

Repeat 9 times. (Or the third time that each hand has three matching loops.)

Repeat, working with the outer hand as follows:

Twist all your loops, giving a 180° turn to each loop:

Reverse upward on your inner hands.

D inner takes the overside of C outer reversed. [*]
(Maintaining the same twist direction as the previous loops.)

Reverse downward on outer hands.

Work with the outer hand:

A takes through B C outer, and D C B inner the overside of A inner reversed. [*]
(Undoing the twist from the first step.)

Exchange loops on your inner hands:

You: With A, enter B of the same hand from within outward and take Your Fellow's B unreversed.
Your Fellow: Takes with his A, Your loop B unreversed.
Both: Lower A to B.

Exchange loops on your outer hands:

You: Put your A loop over and around Your Fellow's A, taking his A loop back in exchange unreversed.

Repeat 9 times. (Or the third time that each hand has three matching loops.)

Repeat from the beginning.

[*] Overside of X reversed - Usually taking the overside (or top side) of a loop means it remains unreversed. The taking finger enters the loop and hooks the top side from within. The loop transfers fingers with no twist. Taking the top side reversed means the taking finger does NOT enter the loop, but hooks the top side from the outside, causing it to twist as it transfers. The difference between this type of reversed and the usual type is the direction that the loop twists. This is important for some braids.

Source: Tollemache 37

A round lace with a cros olyet.
Set 12 bows on your hands and work in the manner of the brod lace with cros oliet [T36] and when ye shall change the bows of your next hands ye shall change the over bows of your further hands and if thou will thy lace to be great take a whipcord and knit [knot] the one end to the bows and the other end betwist thee and thy fellow and when ye shall change the bows of your next hands ye shall change beneath the cord and your further hands above the cord and so begin again.

Source: Harleian 36

A round lace with cros and olyet.
Set 12 bows on your hands, and work in the same manner of the brode lace with cros and olyet [H35]. And when ye shall change your bows of your next hands ye shall change the over bows of your further hands. And if thou wilt that the lace be great take a whipcord and knit [knot] the one end with thy bows and that other end between thee and thy fellow. And when ye shall change the bows of your next hands ye shall change beneath the cord and your further hands above the cord.